Impasto is a traditional painting technique that originated in oil painting and can be used to bring art to life through thick, textured brushstrokes. It's most famously used by impressionist and ...

Rembrandt van Rijn revolutionized painting with a 3D effect using his impasto technique, where thick paint makes a masterpiece protrude from the surface. Scientists have now found out how he did it.

Rembrandt van Rijn's paintings are renowned for their masterful representations of light and shadow and a characteristic plasticity generated by a technique called impasto. Now, scientists have ...

Impasto. From the Italian verb meaning “to paste”, Impasto is a technique in which paint is laid on in such thick layers that the brushstrokes remain clearly visible. Once dried, impasto provides ...

Alternatively, researchers can zap tiny samples (less than 0.1mm in size) of paint to see what chemicals are present, like the French and Dutch scientists did in this latest study.

Impasto (from the Italian word for paste) is a painting technique wherein undiluted paint is applied so thickly (like toothpaste) onto the canvas that it stands out from the surface.

The team now has plans to re-create Rembrandt’s impasto paint and artificially age it in high CO2 and CO2-free conditions to better understand how humid and dry conditions impact the paints.